Roy Jones Jr. had promised one final fight in his hometown to cap his boxing hall of fame career.

It's now set to happen.

Jones, a Booker T. Washington High grad, who turns 49 on Jan. 16, will headline Island Fights 46 on Feb. 8 at the Pensacola Bay Center.

The cruiserweight division fight will be part of a mass fight card of boxing and mixed martial arts bouts and will be on a Thursday night, preceding Pensacola's Mardi Gras weekend celebration.

Jones, whose decorated boxing career was launched at the 1988 Olympics and led to world titles in five separate weight classes, has tabbed this fight on his Twitter account as "My last day at the Bay."

"It's my last one for the bayfront ... Civic Center, Pensacola, Bayfront Arena, whatever you want to call it. So if you want to come to see my last day in Pensacola, be there February 8. That's my last one there," said Jones, who will be in his 75th pro fight on this card.

Jones' 65-9 record includes all of his losses, aside from a controversial disqualification in 1997, occurring after he turned 35 years-old. He has won 10 of his last 11 bouts including two Island Fights main event bouts in the past three years.

Tickets will go on sale Jan. 5. The tickets will be priced at $20 to $70.

Island Fights founder and CEO Dean Toole said Thursday he is close to finalizing an —opponent.

"Words can’t even express how I feel about having Roy on this card," Toole said. "This is amazing, incredible. I am so excited he is going to do his last fight in Pensacola on Island Fights 46.

"The phone calls, the text messages, our social media, Roy’s social media are going crazy. I have never been contacted this much for a fight in the history of us doing this."

Jones is still trying to work on a grand finale bout against former MMA superstar Anderson Silva or another former MMA star, for a big payday in a far bigger venue.

But after beating Rodney Moore in a unanimous decision on August 13, 2016 at the Bay Center in Island Fights 38, Jones announced to the Bay Center crowd he would be back for a final time.

“It means everything to me," Toole said. "This is somebody I have looked up to my whole life. Somebody who I became a fan of combat sports, just from watching Roy Jones Jr.

"In Pensacola we didn’t have the Blue Wahoos, UWF football, the Ice Flyers. We grew up and we had Roy Jones Jr. To become friends with him, business partners with him and now having his last fight, it's incredible to me."

In addition, Island Fights 46 will showcase some of the rising talent that has been on previous fight cards.

The lineup includes Pensacola boxer Devin Cushing, who turned 21 on Dec. 2 and is 6-0 as a junior middleweight. Cushing is trained by Jones' father, Roy Jones Sr.

The card also includes female boxer Ikram Kerwat, former WBC female lightweight champion, who is being trained by Roy Jones Jr. and last fought in Pensacola on Oct. 14 at Island Fights 43.

Unbeaten men's lightweight boxer Whitney Webster (11-0) is also part of the boxing card lineup.

In MMA bouts, Pensacola's Max Mustaki is set to fight Socrates Pierre in a match of two Island Fights regulars. Same for Brok Weaver against Charles Bennett.

"We watched Roy our whole life, now we get to watch Devin Cushing, Ikram Kerwat, Michael Davis, Brok Weaver.... all the people who have been fighting in Island Fights cards, this is going to put eyeballs on these up-and-comers," Toole said. "This is the next wave of stars coming from Pensacola."

This event will be the first time Toole has staged an Island Fights show at the Bay Center on a weeknight. The fact that it ties into Mardi Gras weekend, which starts with the night parade on Feb. 9, then the Pensacola Grand Mardi Gras Parade on Feb. 10 and the Pensacola Beach parade on Feb. 11 was an easy tie-in, Toole said.

"People are taking off that Friday (Feb. 9) anyway for Mardi Gras, so it's a night where people know they are not going to work the next day," he said. "The Bay Center really didn't have another good date until April and I didn't want to wait that long.

"Looking at the (attendance) numbers for other events on a Thursday night at the Bay Center, I feel good we'll have a great crowd."

ISLAND FIGHTS 46

When: Feb. 8

Where: Pensacola Bay Center

Who: Combinaton of boxing and MMA bouts with Roy Jones Jr. as main event.